COMM(1)

User Commands
COMM(1)

NAME
comm - compare two sorted files line by line
SYNOPSIS
comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.
With no options, produce three-column output. Column one contains lines
unique to FILE1, column two
contains lines unique to FILE2, and column three contains lines common to
both files.
-1

suppress column 1 (lines unique to FILE1)

-2

suppress column 2 (lines unique to FILE2)

-3

suppress column 3 (lines that appear in both files)

--check-order
check that the input is correctly sorted, even if all input lines
are pairable
--nocheck-order
do not check that the input is correctly sorted
--output-delimiter=STR
separate columns with STR
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note, comparisons honor the rules specified by 'LC_COLLATE'.
EXAMPLES
comm -12 file1 file2
Print only lines present in both file1 and file2.
comm -3 file1 file2
Print lines in file1 not in file2, and vice versa.
AUTHOR
Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report comm bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report comm translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU G

PL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the
extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
join(1), uniq(1)
The full documentation for comm is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If th
e info and comm programs are
properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'comm invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 8.21

March 2014
COMM(1)